Writing
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And while we seek a healer or rider on the horizon, God plants himself as a diamond laid down in the rough. more»
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Against the random danger of ember attacks, safety has a snowball’s chance... more»
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Of all prophets and seers tradition presents just three, openingthe clasp of heaven’s veil... more»
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Let the year go into the night the joy and the pain the dark and the light... more»
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The new song we would sing on Christmas morning is more a lullaby than a national anthem, it is a quiet, thankful song that longs for peace and rest and comfort, it is a song that sings of grace. more»
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I will not talk about the light that is everywhere, how far you have to travel for the sky to be completely black (and even then there are stars, there is the moon’s borrowed brightness). more»
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It is a weird experience, being pregnant with twins...It is a very humbling experience, learning about the wisdom held deep in your body. More than that, it was my first really visceral experience of co-creation with God. more»
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God, my God of birth pangs and pain that finds release... more»
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Manuka flower honey devotion of bees sweet wine rosemary frankincense scenting the drowsy air. more»
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Into this world, this demented inn, in which there is absolutely no room for him at all, Christ comes uninvited. more»
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Joy – a strange word with which, from time to time, I’ve had a precarious relationship. Possibly because it’s my given name. There have been times I knew in my deepest being the name didn’t fit who and what I experienced myself to be. more»
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berry on the green silver on the sedge scarlet on the leaf cloister in the heart more»
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Tenderly hold those who grieve, those who worry about loved ones more»
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My host mother handed on a recipe so I would learn kitchen-words by heart. more»
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There are years when the Christmas spirit is hard to come by, and it’s in those seasons when I’m so thankful for Advent. Consider it a less flashy but still very beautiful way of being present to this season. more»
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Look upon your church and its pastors in this season of hope which runs so quickly to fatigue and in this season of yearning which becomes so easily quarrelsome. more»
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We live in a world in which bigger and better define our expectations for much of life. We have become so focused by super-size, super stars, and high definition that we tend to view life more»
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The season of Advent means there’s something on the horizon the like of which we have never seen before. more»
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In the holy family, particularly in this time of refugees and advent, we see how important one small family is, one small child is, one small collection of people. In light of the complexities of more»
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how little we understand that which we assent to when we commit to God’s call upon our life more»
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Dear Lord, I have swept and I have washed but still nothing is as shining as it should be for you. more»
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Over these days, quiet remembrance and wreath laying ceremonies at war memorials throughout Aotearoa New Zealand and around the world are taking place. The eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918, the date when hostilities ceased on the Western Front in the war to end all wars is also remembered. more»
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In the beginning were the leaves, and the leaves were fragile and beautiful, and the leaves were on the tree. more»
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Newman's canonisation is important to Anglicans because he was a bridge between communions, transferring a Catholic vision to worldwide Anglicanism and then bringing some of his Anglicanism with him when he became a Catholic. more»
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God, help me to let go unkind words said to me or about me, unkind (but often very clever) words I have rehearsed... more»